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From: frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu (frank segner (phrank))
Subject: Re: init prob error for 4(215%)
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 23:51:37 GMT
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storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
:
: Howdy! I built nethack a while back for my 386bsd system, and everything
: worked fine for the first day or so (games ran great, etc...), but then,
: every time I tried to run it, I got
: init prob error for 4 (215%) or something EXTREMELY similar to that.
: Tracing through some source code tends to suggest that it's dying while trying
: to initialize some objects, but I can't figure out what's up.
: A recompile of the system produces the exact same result---Everything works
: great for a day, and then dies.
: I'd rather not have to recompile nethack everytime I want to play a game ;-)
: This is with 3.1.0.
: Anybody know what's up with this...?
:
sorry, I don't have the solution, but I have the same problem (and no idea
what's going on either) with 3.1.1. I keep a copy of the executable 'nethack'
somewhere and after re-copying this file to the NETHACKDIR it works for a
while ???!
so long,
frank
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